Glastonbury Brewing Co. Golden Chalice

Golden Chalice

 

Glastonbury Brewing Co. in Somerton, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Golden / Blonde Ale Regular
Score
6.13
ABV: 4.8% IBU: - Ticks: 22
A Deceptively Powerful Golden Ale with a hypnotic balance of malts and fragrance hops.

This legendary ale leaves you grasping for more of its robust bitterness and lingering bittersweet finish.

Seize the Chalice.

Winner at Ashcott Beer Festival and Reserve Winner at Dorchester Beer Festival.
 

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 7
Old rating from 2014 - 500ml bottle from the brewery, pours amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, honey, biscuit, hints of spice & malt. Medium body. Medium long bitter finish
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2025 at 11:39

13/08/2003. BELL, 103 Walcot Street, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (FREE HOUSE)
Tried on 03 Dec 2022 at 08:56

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
new label, 500ml, golden chalice, 4.8%, Real Ale. quite hazy orange with a white head. Aroma of malts, hop, yeast, citrus, orange, straw. Taste of citrus, slightly acidic, malts, pilsener/lager, caramalts, biscuit, orange, quite some fruit flavors, still yeasty and bitterness as base, medium body, slightly sour finish, a lot of yeasty notes over-all. --- Beer merged from original tick of Golden Chalice on 25 May 2018 at 10:19 - Score: 6
Tried on 31 Jul 2016 at 08:22

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 2 Overall 5
15th October 2015
Bottle on holiday in Lyme Regis. Hazy gold beer, no head. Palate is light and almost carbonation free! Moderately sweet malts. Ripe orange with orange peel and orange squash. Light semi dry finish. Okay flavour - flat palate!
Tried from Bottle on 27 Oct 2015 at 16:37

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
From cask. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild citrusy and grassy. Sweet malty, light fruity and toasted. Light bitter and mild fruity. Ends with a sweet toasted malt finish.
Tried from Cask on 15 Aug 2013 at 06:10

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Cask at CBI, London on 20th February 2013. Slightly hazy gold with thin whitish film and lacing bands. Yeasty and citric liqiuid with mild spices, almost like a wheatbeer or saison. Quite fruity and hoppy finish with sweet malts. Zingy mouthfeel and medium body.
Tried from Cask on 22 Feb 2013 at 11:54

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 6
Cask at GBBF 2012 ... golden yellow ... thin white head ... grassy lager nose .. soft floral hop ... dull grassy fruit
Tried from Cask on 08 Oct 2012 at 12:41

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, fruity. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120807]
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2012 at 03:37

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled@chriso. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, mild wooden and earthyness. Flavour is fruity, floral, grassy and nicely wooden and herbal.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2012 at 08:26

5.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Brown 500ml bottle, no artificial or genetically modified ingredients. Poured into a Veltins Pilsner glass. Clear and bright, golden and lager looking (the glass helped to give the illusion), withits white head. The aroma however told you this wasn’t a lager/pilsner, the hops and yeast coming up from the glass instantly said, The UK. Very English in the taste, clean and bitter-sweet feel to it. Dry with an even more dryness in the aftertaste. A lot more body to it than the colour indicates. All in all, not bad.
Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2012 at 00:57